Game apparatus



L. CALALUCA GAME APPARATUS Aug. 21, 1934.

Filed April 10, 1933 2 Sheets-Sheet l Zwzmrao (ah/ave Aug. 21, 1934. A ALU A 1,971,295

GAME APPARATUS Filed April 10, 1933 2 Shets-Sheet 2 /5 I {N L 4 M |lll 'lll|l 9l illfllllll l l l ATTORNEY Patented Aug. 21, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE The invention relates to a game apparatus, particularly to a combination pool table and bowling alley.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of an apparatus of this character, wherein the same may be in the form of an attachment for an ordinary pool or billiard table so that the latter can be converted therefrom into a bowling alley or a table will be of a construction that the same may be utilized as a pool table or a bowling alley.

Another object of the invention is the provision of an apparatus of this character, wherein the construction thereof is such as to enable the playing of pool or billiards and also the game of bowling, the apparatus being of novel construction. A further object of the invention is the provision of an apparatus of this character which is simple in construction, thoroughly reliable and efiicient in its purpose, strong, durable, and enabling the converting of a table utilized for the playing of pool or billiards into a bowling alley or alleys.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the features of construction, combination and arrangement of partsas will be hereinafter more fully described in detail,

illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which disclose the preferred embodiment of the invention, and pointed out in the claim hereunto appended.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1- is a fragmentary top plan view of a pool table showing the apparatus in the nature of an attachment to the table constructed in accordance with the invention, whereby the pool table is converted into twin bowling alleys.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary side elevation thereof.

Figure 3 is an elevation of the attachment. Figure 4 is a sectional view on the'line 4-4 of Figure 3 looking in the direction of the arrows.

Figure 5 is a sectional view on the line 55 of Figure 3 looking in the direction of the arrows.

Figure 6 is a top plan view of a modified con- 7 larly Figures 1 to 5 inclusive, A designates gen-.

5 erally a portion of a pool table of any standard construction and in this instance having one end rail detached or removed whereby the table is converted for use as a twin bowling alley, this being effected in a manner hereinafter fully described.

The pool table converter or apparatus comprises a body B including flat twin playing surfaces 10 having at opposite sides thereof and at the outer end of each a ball trough or way 11, the portions of the same at opposite sides of said surface 10 being outwardly inclined as at 12.

The body B at the sides and outer end has formed thereon the marginal upstanding guard rail 13. The playing surfaces 10 are adapted to extend the full length of the table A and are disposed in spaced parallel relation to each other, while between the said surfaces 10 is a vertically upstanding dividing rail 14 providing twin bowling alleys side by side.

Adapted to be set up within the body B as is clearly shown in Figures 1 and 3 of the drawings are the tenpins 15, these being of conventional type. The bowling balls 16 will be trapped in the way 12 and the same returned to a player therein as-will be clearly understood.

The body B has mounted externally thereon coupling plates or straps 17 which, through suitable fasteners 18, secure the body B in abutting relation to the table A at its open end, it being understood of course that the open end is effected by the removal of the end rail hereinbefore indicated.

The body has secured thereto and depending therefrom diagonal braces 19, these being made secure to the legs 20 adjacent thereto of the table A to properly support the said body B when attached to the table A.

In Figure 1 of the drawings there is shown a cue 21 which is of ordinary construction and usable when the table A is serving as a pool table. If found desirable, the cue 21 may be utilized to strike the bowling ball 16 to send it in its course to the set-up of the duck pins 15 for the playing of the game of bowling.

In Figures 6 and '7 of the drawings there is shown a modification, wherein a table top 22 is constructed with the playing surfaces 23 alike to the surfaces 10 and the ways 24 alike to the ways 21 and also with the center dividing rail 25 alike to the dividing rail 14, these-features of construction being permanently formed in the table top 22 and the latter supported by foldable corner legs 26, one end of the same being shown in Figure 7 of the drawings.

It is to be understood that the cue 21 can be utilized as a striker for the balls 16 in the playing of the game of bowling and also this cue can be mounted so that when the same is pulled upon it will be placed under tension and on release,- the tension thereof will project the cue to hit the balls 16 for the driving thereof into the duck pins when set up for the playing of the game of bowling and in this the necessity for holding the cue 21 in the hand of a player is eliminated.

Further, it must be understood that the game apparatus is susceptible of attachment to the end of an ordinary table or may be builded therewith. In lieu of leg supports the game apparatus may be suspended from suitable hangers or placed upon a table. The apparatus is susceptible of play with ten balls as well as ten duck pins and such pins may be set up in any fashion.

What is claimed is:

The combination with a table having a marginally walled top open at one end, of an attachment comprising a body matching the open end of the top and marginally walled, a flat section coextensive with the table top and within the said body to provide a continuous playing surface and a marginal alley about the same, coupling plates arranged exteriorly of the table and body for detachably joining the latter with said table, and a brace beneath said body to hold the same in the plane with the table top.

LEONARDO CALALUCA. 

